GCD organizes data and analyses into “projects”. GCD projects are self contained. You can move the folder containing the GCD project to a different location on your computer and it will continue to work. You can also compress a GCD project folder into a zip archive and share it with other users. A GCD project consists of three primary elements:

1. A folder (fixed path) on your file system where the project and its contents exist.
2. A *.gcd project file that defines the location of layers within the project.
3. All the GCD input and output files stored in sub-folders of the project folder

Sharing GCD Projects

Zipping up a GCD Project and all of its contents is easy, and anyone with the same version of GCD can open up your project and view the results. We illustrate how below: